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News & Events
News
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12-Oct-2007
The Latin American Roundtable on Corporate Governance reviewed institutional investors’ experience and their influence on corporate governance when it met on 10-11 October, 2007 in Colombia. Finding some promising practice but significant shortcomings, they agreed to develop White Paper recommendations to encourage more engaged and informed ownership. The Roundtable also reviewed experience with voluntary corporate governance codes.
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23-Jul-2007
The OECD Steering Group on Corporate Governance has released today the studies it requested on the role of alternative investors in corporate governance.
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05-Jun-2007
The OECD Steering Group has concluded that “activist” hedge funds and private equity firms can play a positive role in corporate governance of publicly held companies and that specific issues are best addressed within the framework of the existing OECD Principles of Corporate Governance.
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04-Dec-2006
The OECD has taken an important step to reinforce the role of its Principles of Corporate Governance as a global standard by issuing guidance for users in assessing their implementation. The Principles, agreed by governments in 1999 and revised in 2004, are designed to maintain public trust in companies and stock markets.
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Events
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from 20-Sep-2005 to 21-Sep-2005
The Sixth Meeting of the Latin American Corporate Governance Roundtable took place in Lima, Peru, on 20 - 21 September, 2005. The Roundtable reviewed progress in implementing the recommendations of the Latin American White Paper on Corporate Governance, considered emerging practices in strengthening enforcement, and experience in improving board effectiveness. Participants also exchanged experience regarding the relevance of the new OECD Guidelines on Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises in the Latin American context.
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from 14-Sep-2005 to 15-Sep-2005
The OECD-MENA Working Group 5 on Improving Corporate Governance Principles held a plenary session on September 14-15 in Rabat, Morocco to discuss corporate governance of state-owned enterprises and progress in implementation of working group objectives.
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on 10-May-2005
The Latin American Roundtable on Corporate Governance launched, on May 10th in Sao Paulo, Brazil, a new Companies Circle. This is an initiative led by companies who have adopted best practices of corporate governance. Its objectives are to bring together a group of Latin American companies who have adopted best corporate governance practices to provide private sector input into the work of the Roundtable; and to share with each other and the public their experiences putting the principles of good corporate governance into practice.
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from 10-Jun-2004 to 11-Jun-2004
The Roundtable meeting included a workshop on transparency and disclosure and related issues in implementation and enforcement; a presentation of the revised 2004 edition of the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance; and reviews of corporate governance reform in Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Romania.
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from 17-May-2004 to 18-May-2004
The OECD presented the draft of a new report on corporate governance in the region which provides a comprehensive overview of the legal framework, actual practice and reform priorities. The meeting discussed the 2004 OECD Principles of Corporate Governance and corporate governance reform in Ukraine.
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